Office Design and Workplace Productivity
What impact does office design have on workplace performance and productivity? Office design has a marked impact on the productivity of employees and on the work environment in general. Perhaps the better question is how environment impacts people both individually and corporately.
An environment simply means the surroundings of an object. If the object in question is your bottom line, that environment becomes very important to you as a business owner or manager. The environment in an office or workplace is comprised of the physical workspace, the layout, and the design of the space, as well as the personalities, emotions, and work habits of the persons there. Leave out any one of those factors, and the environment is less productive. As a business owner or manager, it behooves you to create an environment that is conducive to the personal and professional success of your employees for that is how your business becomes successful.
Office design teams, such as Henriksen Butler have become priceless resources for businesses because their business is understanding how to create the most effective work environments and producing those environments for their clients. They have created teams of design professionals whose sole job is to know their clients and meet their needs based on the business type, size, goals, and communication with managers and employees. They know not only what is current in office fashions, but also how those products will play a role in the productivity of their employees.
The professional design team is experienced so they don’t have to learn what works; they already know. They do not have to “reinvent the wheel” because they know all the different “wheels” available and how each one works relative to each business model.
Physical Space
“How can the ways an office or workspace look impact my employees’ productivity?” you may wonder. To answer this, consider how you feel on a grey and rainy day. Do you feel energize and motivated? The likely answer is “no”. Our environment affects our mood, our mood affects our productivity, and our productivity affects our self-image, which then affects how we relate to and interact with others and the list goes on and on then cycles back again. Workplace environment plays a great role in your business’ success. The colors, décor, even the placement of objects can have an impact.
“But”, you may ask, “How can the Idaho office furniture play such a big role in the overall productivity of a workplace?” To answer that, consider another question; how do you feel after you have sat in an uncomfortable position for more than an hour at a time? The likelihood is that you are stiff, achy, or perhaps even in pain. Ergonomics plays an important role in your offices environment because it leads to either happy and safe employees, or achy and dissatisfied employees. Workplace injuries are bad for productivity, morale, and the success of the company overall, and are relatively easy to prevent with the right furniture and modifications.
Creative Space
Certain office spaces facilitate an energy that fosters creativity, responsibility, and organization, while others are stale and lifeless. The design teams know this and consider not only the right furniture for your space, but also the placement of said furniture, along with the flooring, lighting, décor, and other factors that most owners, managers, employees and even visitors do not consider but are affected by nonetheless. When the professionals at Henriksen Butler bought the historical space they now occupy in Salt Lake City office furniture, Utah, they renovated it with respect for these elements along with the origins of the space, the community it was a part of, and the employees that would work their everyday. By considering all of these factors they created a space that is functional and practical, as well as energetic and thriving from a space that was past its prime and outdated. Imagine what they could do for your space.
Henriksen Butler offers varied levels of service, from full project management, to cleaning services and product refurbishment, and all the stages in between the two. Their attention to detail coupled with their mission to “meet the needs of their clients by providing quality and excellence in product and quality services” makes the choice to consider a design team an easy one.
Your business deserves every chance to thrive. Profitability depends on several factors, and as a business owner or manager, you have likely considered all or most of the variables that you can control and how. Is it time to consider the others who impact your business as well? Clients, customers, and employees are a vital part of your business and they will consider themselves a valuable part when you show them that you appreciate them by providing a safe, inviting, clean, and appropriate space for them to interact and succeed in.
